At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team supporting mental health recovery and ensure high-quality service delivery.
- Company: Join Porchlight, a charity dedicated to helping vulnerable individuals thrive.
- Benefits: Enjoy generous leave, pension schemes, flexible working, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive environment encouraging applications from all backgrounds.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in community mental health and strong team management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 36483 £ per year.
As the Porchlight service manager within Mental Health Together, you will lead a team of people working frontline supporting people as they begin their journey into mental health recovery. You will help to develop the Porchlight team in all areas of their practice and ensure that quality standards are implemented and maintained. You will have an evident commitment to quality practice, ensuring that support is consistently of a high standard, and that a culture of continuous improvement is developed.
Managing a dispersed team, you will be a strong communicator, leading by example and skilled in understanding how to adapt your style to suit different learning and development needs. This role is part of the established Kent & Medway service, Mental Health Together (MHT) for which Porchlight is one of the strategic partners; this is the transformed multi-agency offer, which brings all the services and agencies that support people with varying mental health needs much closer together. This ensures that people get the right care, without having to navigate service boundaries and without repeatedly telling their story.
This role is perfect for individuals with significant experience of working within a community mental health and/or wellbeing setting, with a strong focus on quality and improvement, and the ability to effectively manage a team of community-based workers.
Are you right for the job? Do you have significant experience of leading within community mental health and wellbeing services? Do you have experience of working collaboratively to deliver a developing service? Do you have the ability to listen to and understand people to find out what they need, and through coaching, make a plan together that they can achieve? Do you feel passionate about improving people’s experience of mental health services?
Working pattern: 9.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday with some flexibility required.
Location type: On-site
Contract type: Permanent
Interview date: 20th and 21st of August 2026
Our application form and interview process have been designed to assess your transferable skills rather than direct experience. This helps remove barriers for people who may have the right values, abilities, and potential but may not have formal experience in the role they’re applying for. We actively encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
The charity Porchlight is a charity supporting people who are homeless, vulnerable, and isolated. At Porchlight, we are passionate about helping vulnerable people to reach their full potential. We strive for a fairer society where vulnerable people find stability, the most excluded are included, and where homelessness and poverty are things of the past. Porchlight is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
The benefits include:
- Generous annual leave entitlements
- Generous pension scheme
- Occupational sick pay
- Occupational maternity and support pay
- Employee assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to mental health first aiders
- Sponsorship for professional qualifications
- Staff loans
- Hybrid and flexible working
- Life assurance
Service Manager - Mental Health Together in Canterbury employer: Porchlight
Porchlight is an exceptional employer, dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment for its employees. With a strong focus on employee wellbeing, the organisation offers generous benefits such as annual leave, a robust pension scheme, and access to mental health first aiders, ensuring that staff feel valued and cared for. Located in Kent & Medway, the Mental Health Together Navigator role provides a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community while benefiting from professional growth and development within a collaborative team of passionate individuals.
